Did you even look at the screenshots in the article that clearly show Visio as part of Office 2010 in the Start Menu?
Well gee, Open Office is in my start menu, so it must be part of Windows...
Visio must be bought separately from any of the Office suites and actually costs MORE than the entire equivalent suite ($559.95 for Visio Pro compared to $499.95 for Office Pro).
Microsoft choosing to store its icon in the same start menu folder as other Office packages doesn't make it part of the suite. Bundling it would do that.
I've used it long enough to get a feel for the OS, and would say it's not bad. Certainly feels better than Vista, but not as good as a well-sorted XP install.
That's the main problem with 7 - it doesn't change anything significant about using a computer. It won't make your life easier or your work more productive. Sure there are some minor enhancements, but nothing you can't get on XP with a few freeware apps, and is is definitely more sluggish on the same hardware than XP.
So in exchange for your couple of hundred dollars and a mandatory hardware upgrade, you get a whole lot of... not much at all, really.
So why does MS continue to act as if charging for security is a Good Thing, when it can so easily be had for free?
Microsoft has a delicate balancing act to manage.
There's a massive industry that's emerged to work around Windows' security deficiencies. Companies that collect malware in honeypots. Companies that generate malware signatures. Companies that write antivirus software. Companies that train users how to avoid Windows pitfalls. Businesses to monitor networks for intrusions. Businesses to repair or reinstall failed Windows machines. Security researchers, patch writers, forensic specialists... and so on, ad nauseum.
There are millions of people kept in continuous employment just to protect and maintain Microsoft's OS, many of them the "expert tech analysts" you're asking to call Microsoft out. Unsurprisingly, those people are often Microsoft's most energetic supporters.
Microsoft does not want to alienate their most ardent fans.
In fact a good app will have both a CLI and a GUI; this makes it so other programs can interface with it
Fantastic idea.
You could even make the interprocess language a standard for that OS so that any program that implements the port can interface with any other compatible program.
Users could mix and match functions within multiple applications!
Is this the recycling scheme proposed by Ruggero Santilli, the "hadronic mechanics" theorist?
The same guy who invented MagneGas and MagneHydrogen, which are made of magnecules?
This is a person who was criticised by other scientists as having;
Many serious misinterpretations, and misunderstandings of the "data" presented... [the paper] creates some doubt as to whether [the author] actually knows the difference between a gas chromatograph (GC) and a mass spectrometer (MS).
Are you suggesting his method of recycling high-level nuclear waste is a credible solution to the waste problem?
If so, you're not merely uninformed. You're as crazy as a loon.
A lot of these ideas were championed by Edward Teller in the late '60s.
In Western Australia, he convinced local iron ore magnate Lang Hancock to lobby the state government to use nuclear tools.
But the project required a new port. Hancock, in a spectacularly bizarre twist, brought Dr. Edward Teller to Western Australia to investigate the use of 'nuclear tools' to expedite the development of the Pilbara. One plan, for example, was to bury a nuclear charge deep under one of the region's high-grade haematite formations and then cook off the bomb. Teller told Hancock there would be no release of radioactive dust into the air because a silicon bubble would form around the immediate area of the blast, while the rest of the deposit/mountain would be reduced to convenient, human-head sized boulders of iron ore.
The craziest application of 'nuclear tools' was Hancock's suggestion of detonating five 200-kiloton nuclear bombs at a depth of 800 feet off Cape Keraudren. This was designed to create a deep water report that could handle the massive freighters hauling ore from the Pilbara.
On average, Microsoft charges computer makers $73 for Windows Vista, the version of Windows used in desktop and high-powered laptop PCs. That is triple what it receives for a sale of Windows XP for a netbook.
But the reason for this current FUD campaign from Microsoft is the very real fear of super cheap ARM based netbooks running Linux. Expect to see many more dirty tricks from Redmond over the next few months...
What the hell do you mean, SD cards are too bulky?
Actually, I have balls and I sort of agree.
SD cards are large enough to get cracked, scratched and broken when I keep them in my pocket. Micro SD are small enough not to be subject to the same damage.
The on screen keyboard on the N800 is not bad either.
It works well enough, but I ended up getting a Xema BlueKeyboard which folds up to be almost as small as the N800. With Abiword installed, it makes for a surprisingly capable word-processing kit.
I haven't seen a BSOD on my computer for many years
Nobody has (almost).
Microsoft did bit of brilliant market engineering by switching the default setting from BSOD to automatic reboot for XP. It meant all their evangelists could legitimately (if misleadingly) claim that XP was so stable it never BSOD'd, while not requiring any actual expensive coding to fix bugs.
To get your pretty blue screens back, change the recovery settings to disable automatic rebooting:
Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under Startup and Recovery, click Settings to open the Startup and Recovery dialog box.
Clear the Automatically restart check box, and click OK the necessary number of times.
Restart your computer for the settings to take effect.
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Maybe.
But their magical marketing team has managed to transmogrify a thinly veiled facelift of it into the widely hyped Windows 7.
Yes?
And do you put on your robe and wizard hat before you use it?
If YOU did, sure.
But don't worry, neanderthals weren't known to be squeamish.
Pcauthority rules of engagement:
Well gee, Open Office is in my start menu, so it must be part of Windows...
Visio must be bought separately from any of the Office suites and actually costs MORE than the entire equivalent suite ($559.95 for Visio Pro compared to $499.95 for Office Pro).
Microsoft choosing to store its icon in the same start menu folder as other Office packages doesn't make it part of the suite. Bundling it would do that.
Huh?
Vizio isn't part of any of the Office suites. It's effectively a completely separate package.
Anyway, OpenOffice Draw has no equivalent in the MS collection and is arguably much more useful to the average user.
Yep.
And if you're going down that path, why not run your instance of XP in a VM on Linux?
More compatibility, less cost and far fewer security issues. If you're going virtual, what's the point of Windows 7 at all?
Try it yourself then.
I've used it long enough to get a feel for the OS, and would say it's not bad. Certainly feels better than Vista, but not as good as a well-sorted XP install.
That's the main problem with 7 - it doesn't change anything significant about using a computer. It won't make your life easier or your work more productive. Sure there are some minor enhancements, but nothing you can't get on XP with a few freeware apps, and is is definitely more sluggish on the same hardware than XP.
So in exchange for your couple of hundred dollars and a mandatory hardware upgrade, you get a whole lot of... not much at all, really.
Microsoft has a delicate balancing act to manage.
There's a massive industry that's emerged to work around Windows' security deficiencies. Companies that collect malware in honeypots. Companies that generate malware signatures. Companies that write antivirus software. Companies that train users how to avoid Windows pitfalls. Businesses to monitor networks for intrusions. Businesses to repair or reinstall failed Windows machines. Security researchers, patch writers, forensic specialists... and so on, ad nauseum.
There are millions of people kept in continuous employment just to protect and maintain Microsoft's OS, many of them the "expert tech analysts" you're asking to call Microsoft out. Unsurprisingly, those people are often Microsoft's most energetic supporters.
Microsoft does not want to alienate their most ardent fans.
Ballmer will be demonstrating.
Does that change your mind?
Fantastic idea.
You could even make the interprocess language a standard for that OS so that any program that implements the port can interface with any other compatible program.
Users could mix and match functions within multiple applications!
You could call it AREXX...
Ah, from what I heard, it wasn't leaked anyway. It was squirted.
Is this the recycling scheme proposed by Ruggero Santilli, the "hadronic mechanics" theorist?
The same guy who invented MagneGas and MagneHydrogen, which are made of magnecules?
This is a person who was criticised by other scientists as having;
Many serious misinterpretations, and misunderstandings of the "data" presented... [the paper] creates some doubt as to whether [the author] actually knows the difference between a gas chromatograph (GC) and a mass spectrometer (MS).
Are you suggesting his method of recycling high-level nuclear waste is a credible solution to the waste problem?
If so, you're not merely uninformed. You're as crazy as a loon.
In Western Australia, he convinced local iron ore magnate Lang Hancock to lobby the state government to use nuclear tools.
But the project required a new port. Hancock, in a spectacularly bizarre twist, brought Dr. Edward Teller to Western Australia to investigate the use of 'nuclear tools' to expedite the development of the Pilbara. One plan, for example, was to bury a nuclear charge deep under one of the region's high-grade haematite formations and then cook off the bomb. Teller told Hancock there would be no release of radioactive dust into the air because a silicon bubble would form around the immediate area of the blast, while the rest of the deposit/mountain would be reduced to convenient, human-head sized boulders of iron ore.
The craziest application of 'nuclear tools' was Hancock's suggestion of detonating five 200-kiloton nuclear bombs at a depth of 800 feet off Cape Keraudren. This was designed to create a deep water report that could handle the massive freighters hauling ore from the Pilbara.
http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/wa-govt-iron-ore/2007/07/05/
Very close.
On average, Microsoft charges computer makers $73 for Windows Vista, the version of Windows used in desktop and high-powered laptop PCs. That is triple what it receives for a sale of Windows XP for a netbook.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/technology/02netbooks.htm
But the reason for this current FUD campaign from Microsoft is the very real fear of super cheap ARM based netbooks running Linux. Expect to see many more dirty tricks from Redmond over the next few months...
We call those "muscles".
They take a bit of effort to get, but pretty much anyone's capable if they genuinely want to lose weight.
This seems to me to be a fairly informative summary of the history of FATxx filesystems.
Dumb analogy.
Where can I go to a book/movie/music dealership and buy brand new 2004 release books/movies/music?
Sex is like pizza. FYI: Crusty and cheesy is good for pizza, for sex, not so.
Wait 'till your first crash. You'll find your Tata Touch has its steering controls obnoxiously embedded in your chest.
Maybe the people who patented the use of a simple lookup table to add long filenames in an 8.3 based filesystem might disagree with you?
Actually, I have balls and I sort of agree.
SD cards are large enough to get cracked, scratched and broken when I keep them in my pocket. Micro SD are small enough not to be subject to the same damage.
It works well enough, but I ended up getting a Xema BlueKeyboard which folds up to be almost as small as the N800. With Abiword installed, it makes for a surprisingly capable word-processing kit.
Scattered over Puget Sound.
Nobody has (almost).
Microsoft did bit of brilliant market engineering by switching the default setting from BSOD to automatic reboot for XP. It meant all their evangelists could legitimately (if misleadingly) claim that XP was so stable it never BSOD'd, while not requiring any actual expensive coding to fix bugs.
To get your pretty blue screens back, change the recovery settings to disable automatic rebooting:
Enjoy your cheery BSOD messages!